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[-] PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Probably because they’ve proven that they won’t follow the oath they swore. So if they get reelected and swear the same oath (that they’ve already broken once) again, we already know they can’t be trusted to uphold it. So we don’t even give them the opportunity to be sworn in a second time.

But since an unsworn person never violated an oath of office, they’re still an unknown and could potentially be trusted. It’s a sort of “innocent until proven guilty” situation, where the person hasn’t broken any oath so by default they’re assumed to be trustworthy. But as soon as you break that oath, you’re not going to be trusted again.

[-] phx@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Another situation I could see is if you had a massive power grab by an authoritarian group and a subsequent insurrection that actually led to them being overgrown. Wouldn't make sense to disqualify the ones that fought for it.

[-] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

An important point. This insurrection rule could be used by fascist to retain power.

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